Old XP needs a lightweigth browser such as Trident based SlimBrowser made by FlashPeak. SlimBrowser is for Windows but now FlashPeak is developing SlimBoat for Linux, Mac and Windows. SlimBoat is a lightweight Webkit browser. I have very bad feelings about Webkit based Midori, but still I have to test SlimBoat.

There is 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu versions of SlimBoat, but I am not so familiar with Webkit, so I tested exe version in Racy 5.3. Wined SlimBoat had same problem as it has in Windows OS: It won't open https sites.

Edit: 2nd try in Windows with portable 1.1.4 and now I can open Gmail and other https sites.

Anyone tried Ubuntu version?

Edit: Xth try and Ubuntu 32bit Slimboat 1.1.11 works in Precise-5.4.1.1 after two packages installed:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/libgstreamer0.10-0/download
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0/downloadLast edited by xman on Thu 29 Nov 2012, 06:13; edited 4 times in total

FlashPeak Inc. is developer of both Slims, but SlimBrowser uses Internet Explorer's proprietary Trident layout engine, and SlimBoat uses open source Webkit layout engine. SlimBrowser is over ten years old veteran but SlimBoat is a newcomer. SlimBrowser is for Windows only, SlimBoat is for Windows, Mac and Linux.

I wrote about https sites as SlimBoat showstopper. I have to draw back my words. Second try was more succesful. I downloaded portable SlimBoat for Windows to Windows and extracted it. Gmail and other https sites are working now.

darkcity wrote:

Thats interesting, I hadnt heard of another company using Internet Explorers layout engine.

Yes, there is some lightweight and fast Trident based browsers such as SlimBrowser, GreenBrowser and Avant Lite. I prefer SlimBrowser. Some browsers can use Trident and one or two other layout engines (Webkit, Gecko): Maxthon, Sleipnir, Avant and Lunascape. Even Chromium and Firefox and their variants can use Trident with IE tab extension.

As I considered earlier, there have been some ssl issue: FlashPeak updated SlimBoat to 1.1.5 and fixed ssl library issue.

SlimBoat 1.1.5 uses QtWebkit 4.7.4.0. I have tried earlier other QtWebkit browser, Nokia QtWeb, but QtWeb had problems to save browser settings or bookmarks and so on. SlimBoat is better and highly configurable. There is possibility to import bookmarks from Firefox, IE or SlimBrowser. I imported bookmarks succesfully from SlimBrowser.

Yes, maybe I exaggerate when I said that Slims are close together. SlimBoat can be described early alpha, while SlimBrowser is super stable. SlimBrowser is only browser which can open and play Silverlight videos in my old XP laptop. Flash performance is also best but not great.

I did some more dirtywork with wine and 32 bit Slimboat exe in Racy. I installed flashplayer 10.3.183.25 for Windows to play flash videos. Test video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmIByrcwAQ, is very nice but flash crashes if I try play it full screen. Not a big problem, zoom works lovely.

I'm running Slim Browser on MacPup on a very old Toshiba Tecra. That's because I need a reasonably functional browser. So far it runs quite fast, but it will crash when trying to download files. This is too bad since it is the fastest browser going on this machine with the exception of Puppybrowser, and more functional - when it works.

As a "webkit" browser, is there anything else that I should install? There are no missing dependencies.

Warning! MacPup is an exception. Ubuntu Slimboat does not start on Slacko, Racy or Precise. I also tried it on Linux Mint: no problem, deb installs and Slimboat plays well. So, for most Puppies Slimboat browser needs some compiling effort to be an lightweight alternative for old machines.

I'm running Slim Browser on MacPup on a very old Toshiba Tecra. That's because I need a reasonably functional browser. So far it runs quite fast, but it will crash when trying to download files. This is too bad since it is the fastest browser going on this machine with the exception of Puppybrowser, and more functional - when it works.

As a "webkit" browser, is there anything else that I should install? There are no missing dependencies.

download libs from http://www.slimboat.com/tmp/libs/libs.tar.gz
and extract it to ./slimboat

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